Air Liquide Japan completed the construction of the first hydrogen «fixed location» (H2) public station in the city of Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture, and started operations last month. The station, which is the first to be built in the city, except a mobile phone, is subsidized by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (METI), as well as by the municipal government of Kanagawa prefecture. This is the sixth H2 station owned and operated directly by Air Liquide in Japan. The Tier One company already has two located in Aichi, through a joint venture with Toyota Tsusho Corporation, and one in Saga, Fukuoka and Hyogo. Nationwide, Japan now houses some 100 stations.